[Poetic Peter]

Re: A new start

http://www.trabel.com/brussel/brussels-town_hall.htm

Analysis:
-Grandiose
-Hugely out of proportion tower
-Tower badly off-center
-Revisonist 19th century "restoration" covered the building with ill-fitting idols
-It LOOKs like a Catlick church because it was built by Cat Lickers
-It is a fancy-schmancy old pile erected by grasping, prideful pseudo-frenchies,

sorry! this is how that thing is seen here in God's Country.


I could show you real architecture exists right here in my backyard in Miami Florida,
if you can just open your mind to balance and beauty:

How about the nearby Kampong of David Fairchild, American Botanist?
Or how about Villa Viscaya, the winter home of an early 20th century industrial baron?

How about Coral Gables' Biltmore Hotel ?

http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Archives/CA_Show_Article/0,2322,917,00.html

Did Al Capone or Al Gore ever compliment your town's motel?
L00K at the good taste of American architecture, just in this one remarkable edifice:

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=biltmore+hotel&btnG=Search

These local buildings, all within a mile or so of my shanty,
are world-class buildings -in much better taste- than your village's
overwrought hymn of vacated glory.

[Bub.]

Re: A new start

You know more about the Bible than about Art, my friend.

Analysis:
-Grandiose I agree
-Hugely out of proportion tower You should see it from further. You can't take a nice pic of the Empire State Building if you're just a few meters far from it
-Tower badly off-center What you call "tower" is the Belfry. It's older than the rest of the building. If you are right in front of it, you'll see that it's right in the middle
-Revisonist 19th century "restoration" covered the building with ill-fitting idols
1402, not 19th century, my friend. And these are not idols but statues of the former Dukes and Duchesses of Brabant. If these are idols, the Statue of Liberty is an idol too.
-It LOOKs like a Catlick church because it was built by Cat Lickers
There is no "catholic" style. "This Gothic building, which stands in the city's Grand Place, is widely regarded as a masterpiece of medieval European secular architecture"
-It is a fancy-schmancy old pile erected by grasping, prideful pseudo-frenchies, Not at all. The architec is Jacob van Thienen. You'll remark that "Van Thienen" is a Dutch and not French name.

As for the popularity of both buildings, when I type "Brussel town hall" there are over 435 with google, while "Kampong of David Fairchild" gives only 1 picture.

[Bub.]

Re: A new start

But let's stop with that. We won't argue about the popularity of our respective cities. That's senseless and we won't prove anything.

You could rather try to answer to my formet posts, about hospitallity.

[Brother Temperance]

Re: A new start

Where do they speak about japanese tourists?

The point is that the unsaved are not welcome. The Heathen Japanee are pretty much unsaved by definition. Most of them don't even know who Jesus is.
2nd John 1:9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

We are not to receive non-Christians into our house. Being nice and polite to unChristian evildoers makes you as bad as they are. What is so hard to understand about that?